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00:00This is 29 Acacia Road, and this is Eric, the schoolboy who leads an amazing double life.
00:08When Eric eats a banana, an amazing transformation occurs.
00:16Eric is Banana Man, ever alert for the call to action.
00:20Action!
00:30I don't mind the rain, cause this is my big day, we're playing Gasworks United and I'm in gold!
00:37This is no ordinary rain bucketing down.
00:41That's right, banana fans, it was raining cats and dogs. Oodles were forming everywhere.
00:47It's all righty here, Eric, this is no ordinary rain storm bucketing down.
00:53Oh, I tell you loud, it's getting very damp here.
00:58Now, Mr. Gringle, our damage control officer, is down at the dam.
01:02And he says the wall can't take much more pressure.
01:05Gosh, Chief, if that wall gets wet!
01:07Yes, Eric, exactly! Think of all that masonry and think of all those tons of water pouring down Acacia Road.
01:13It could be the wall of death!
01:16Right, Chief, I'll be right, I'll get in touch with Banana Man, immediately!
01:33Banana Man and the Chief told a chill of foreboding.
01:36Could this be the work of the weatherman?
01:39But surely they'd seen the last of that evil man when his airship vanished in the grey arctic mists.
01:45I haven't heard the last of the weatherman.
01:49Never mind, Banana Man was on his way.
01:53Yes, man, to face one of the greatest challenges of my career.
01:58It's Banana Man!
01:59Hi there, Gringle.
02:00Hi.
02:01This is a splendid view. Now, what seems to be the problem?
02:04I'm doing me best, Mr. B, but this is a very big wall.
02:08Say no more. What's to be done?
02:10Oh, well, you see, there's a huge plug at the base of this wall.
02:14If you could pull that plug, all this water would drain away and we'll all be saved.
02:19But hurry, Banana Man, this wall won't last much longer.
02:23Fine, George Gringle.
02:25Yes?
02:26Look, that's a periscope. There's no time for a one-and-a-half twist or a somersault.
02:32Just a somersault, sir.
02:33No, there's no time. I shall just do my straight power dive.
02:37You must do what you think best, Mr. B.
02:41In that green twilight world beneath the waves, it was Hunter against Destroyer.
02:47And suddenly, there it was.
02:49Great armatured bananas. A submersible airship.
02:54Yes, it is the weatherman.
02:57In person, baby mind.
03:00And what a time for that interfering banana to turn up.
03:03Just a few more minutes of rain and the rising floodwaters will crack the wall.
03:09And then it's bye-bye, Arcacia Road, and farewell, the Acme Bingo Hall.
03:15I know, I can stop Banana Man with a banana-seeking torpedo.
03:20Range at 5,000. Speed at 25 knots.
03:25Go!
03:28It's rolling.
03:30Even at 50 fathoms, my underwater hearing aid can pick up the approach of a deadly banana-seeking torpedo.
03:38Ah, this length of tube should do the trick.
03:41I'll bend it like this and...
03:47Ready when you are, weatherman.
03:49It's coming back.
03:51I can't let Banana Man pull that plug out. Stand by to grab.
04:05Yes, fans, another villain down the drain.
04:09All in a day's work for a modest hero.
04:13And now it's time Eric appeared at that football match.
04:22We lost 23-0, Eric. We had nobody in goal.
04:26Yes, where were you, Eric?
04:28I know what you're thinking. Tell them the truth, right?
04:31But they'll never believe it.